How to Write an Alternative Pop Song - Chord structure of the bridge - Alternative pop songs

Hi. My name is Cody Kimmel. I am the leader singer of the band Eliot Fitzgerald and I'm here with Expert Village to teach you how to write an alternative pop song. Now, as we talked about before, it is important when you're writing a bridge to develop a good structure for that, to know a good structure for that. Like we talked about with the verse, the chorus and the prechorus, we want to develop both a good chord structure and melody structure and a good lyrical structure. Both are just as important, so let's talk about the chord structure. So far, our song, and this is going to be kind of what changes it, because like I said, the bridge should be a change. Now if most of the song is very kind of "up" and peppy and all that stuff, you should go to like a minor chord and maybe even slow it to half-time tempo. Let's say it's a sadder song or kind of more in a minor key, bringing it up and actually putting it in a key or putting it in more of a major section of the song, maybe even more up beat or something like that. That would be good. For this song for example, it's been in a major key for the most part and it's been fairly driving most of the song so when we get to the bridge, we're going to want to do something different. For example, this is the structure of a six, which is the strongest minor chord, to a four. And this will provide a very good and necessary change for the song so that it doesn't get mundane. And melody-wise over top of it, especially if it's a song like this where there's a lot of lyrics in it, you're going want to leave a lot of space in your bridge. Like I said, the bridge should be different than the rest of the song. So if you're going to write a bridge that's very similar to the rest of the song, it doesn't really serve a purpose as a bridge. Something like that. And like I said, as you're writing your song, you want to play around with these chords and maybe hum some different melodies and things like that as you're developing your song.